By December 2019, 98%% of the undergraduate class of 2019 had reported a post-graduation outcome related to professional experiences, including employment, religious vocation and service, and graduate or professional school.* (This represents a "knowledge rate" of 98%).
Of the members of the Class of 2019, 97.56% were able to seek employment or continuing education within six months of graduation. 2.44% of graduates were unable to engage in professional searches due to personal reasons.
Of the graduates from the class of 2019 able to engage in a professional search, 97.2% were either employed or engaged in continued education.
| Employed | 69.4% |
| Attending Graduate School | 27.8% |
| Seeking Employment or underemployed | 2.8% |
Of Employed graduates (at nonprofit, for-profit, and public service organizations) from the Class of 2019, 10% provided entry-level salary data. The average salary of these graduates was $46,428. The median salary was $40,000. The lowest salary reported was $20,000, and the highest was $82,000.
By December 2018, 100% of the undergraduate class of 2018 had reported a post-graduation outcome related to professional experiences, including employment, religious vocation and service, and graduate or professional school.* (This represents a "knowledge rate" of 100%).
Of the members of the Class of 2018, 98.46% were able to seek employment or continuing education within six months of graduation. 1.54% of graduates were unable to engage in professional searches due to personal reasons.
Of the graduates from the class of 2018 able to engage in a professional search, 95.31% were either employed or engaged in continued education.
| Employed | 66.41% |
| Attending Graduate School | 28.91% |
| Seeking Employment or underemployed | 4.69% |
Of Employed graduates (at nonprofit, for-profit, and public service organizations) from the Class of 2018, 17.31% provided entry-level salary data. The average salary of these graduates was $39,908. The median salary was $40,000. The lowest salary reported was $20,000, and the highest was $100,000.
By December 2017, 100% of the undergraduate class of 2017 had reported a post-graduation outcome related to professional experiences, including employment, religious vocation and service, and graduate or professional school.* (This represents a "knowledge rate" of 100%).
Of the members of the Class of 2017, 97.15% were able to seek employment or continuing education within six months of graduation. 2.85% of graduates were unable to engage in professional searches due to personal reasons.
Of the graduates from the class of 2017 able to engage in a professional search, 95.1% were either employed or engaged in continued education.
| Employed | 67.43% |
| Attending Graduate School | 27.69% |
| Seeking Employment or underemployed | 4.89% |
Of Employed graduates (at nonprofit, for-profit, and public service organizations) from the Class of 2017, 18.24% provided entry-level salary data. The average salary of these graduates was $42,870. The median salary was $40.000. The lowest salary reported was $20,000, and the highest was $145,000.
By December 2016, 100% of the undergraduate class of 2016 had reported a post-graduation outcome related to professional experiences, including employment, religious vocation and service, and graduate or professional school.* (This represents a "knowledge rate" of 100%).
Of the members of the Class of 2016, 98.5% were able to seek employment or continuing education within six months of graduation. 1.51% of graduates were unable to engage in professional searches due to personal reasons.
Of the graduates from the class of 2016 able to engage in a professional search, 96.17% were either employed or engaged in continued education.
| Employed | 74.33% |
| Attending Graduate School | 21.84% |
| Seeking Employment or underemployed | 3.83% |
Of Employed graduates (at nonprofit, for-profit, and public service organizations) from the Class of 2016, 30.41% provided entry-level salary data. The average salary of these graduates was $39,754. The median salary was $40.000 (an increase of almost 10% year-over-year). The lowest salary reported was $25,000, and the highest was $70,000.
By December 2015, 100% of the undergraduate class of 2015 had reported a post-graduation outcome related to professional experiences, including employment , religious vocation and service, and graduate or professional school.* (This represents a "knowledge rate" of 100%).
Of the members of the Class of 2015, 98.7% were able to seek employment or continuing education within six months of graduation. 1.3% of graduates were unable to engage in professional searches due to personal reasons.
Of the graduates from the class of 2015 able to engage in a professional search, 96.98% were either employed or engaged in continued education.
| Employed | 71.14% |
| Attending Graduate School | 25.84% |
| Seeking Employment or underemployed | 3.02% |
Of Employed graduates from the Class of 2015, 38.04% provided entry-level salary data. The average salary of these graduates was $39,400 and the median salary was $37,000.
By December 2014, 97.86% of the members of the Class of 2014 were able to seek employment or continuing education within six months of graduation. 2.14% of graduates were unable to engage in professional searches due to personal reasons.
Of the graduates from the class of 2014 able to engage in a professional search, 94.18% were either employed or engaged in continued education.
| Employed | 72.72% |
| Attending Graduate School | 21.46% |
| Seeking Employment or unknown | 3.32% |
| Underemployed | 2.50% |
*For more information regarding the standards for reporting undergraduate First Destination data, see National Association of Colleges and Educators, Standards and Protocols for the Collection and Dissemination of Graduating Student Initial Career Outcomes Information for Undergraduates.
Chair and Associate Professor of English Debra Romanick Baldwin, Ph.D., and Professor of Physics and recent Interim Dean of Constantin College Sally Hicks, Ph.D., have secured a $299,078 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support writing instruction at UD for the fall 2020 semester.
+ Read MoreHis first step was to enroll in physician’s assistant school at Baylor’s College of Medicine, a career trajectory to which he had aspired since his early childhood. Nowadays, Jonathan Cunningham, BA ’17, is dedicated to the vocational pursuit of comfort and healing at MD Anderson in Houston, among the largest cancer treatment centers in the U.S., where he was once a chemotherapy patient himself.
+ Read MoreDuring his Rome semester in 1991, Joseph Meaney, BA '93, with his friends (now Father) Kevin Cook, BA '94, and (now Texas State Representative and UD Trustee) Tan Parker, BA '93, attended a private Mass with Pope St. John Paul II. Several weeks earlier, they had hand-delivered a letter to the Swiss Guards outside St. Peter's requesting the Mass and including their contact information; at last, they'd received the phone call instructing them to be at the Bronze Gates at 5 a.m.
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